Math is Hard! (For girls like Hillary)

Last night, Hillary won Pennsylvania by the magic margin of ten points. Whether her victory is due to the negative tough ads she took out against Obama recently or because Reverend Wright's speeches finally pushed those "bitter" voters away from Obama, Hillary has lived (again) to die another day.

Watching her victory speech, where Hillary exuded optimism and made inspiring (rather than generic) historical references to struggles feminism has overcome, I was nearly moved to replace my carpal tunnel gloves with my boxing ones (dormant since a kickboxing mishap). Sounding like the second coming of Ronald Reagan's "It's Morning in America," Hillary almost had me taking a victory lap around my apartment, raising my gloves in jubilant Rocky style in front of my flat screen. The scrappy Hillary now exuded a feminine strength I have been waiting for her to.

But then the pundits started in, explaining, as they had all night, that a true, mathematical victory for Hillary was nearly impossible. Hillary would have to win 80% of many of the remaining primary contests. I started to feel deflated. The gloves would not be coming on. As I sunk deeper into my chair, I realized that Hillary was more likely to win a stuffed donkey at an amusement park fair than the nomination of the donkey party. The math behind the rigged amusement park attraction is more favorable. Sometimes girl students self-defeat with the "Math is hard" attitude. I know I did. Hillary ignores, to the chagrin of Obama supporters, that math can be hard, and, until last night, I had forgotten how much I liked that about her.

Does Hillary's triumphant attitude of last night inspire you? Or are you too fixated on the math to put those boxing gloves on?

—Asma

P.S. What if Hillary made you want to put on the boxing gloves, but your significant other hates Rocky? Take our Glamocracy quiz on relationships and politics here.